He declares he has no money to give them.' 'And yet he spent eighteen hundred pounds last week at that Christie sale!' said the Rector with a laugh.

'And now I suppose the new secretary will add fuel to the flame.

I saw Pamela for a minute alone, and she said Miss Bremerton was "just as much gone on Greek things as father," and they were like a pair of lunatics when the new vases came down.' 'Oh, blow the secretary!' said Sir Henry with exasperation.

'And meanwhile his daughters can't get a penny out of him for any war purpose whatever! Well, I must go on.' They parted, and Sir Henry put his cob into a sharp trot which soon brought him in sight of a distant building--low and irregular--surrounded by trees, and by the wide undulating slopes of the park.
'Dreadfully ugly place,' he said to himself, as the house grew plainer; 'rebuilt at the worst time, by a man with no more taste than a broomstick.

Still, he was the sixteenth owner, from father to son.